BIG CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2343, 28 December 1914, Page 3

BIG CRICKET

JIAELBOROUGH MEN BEATEN : BY GIT HMN AUCKLAND-WELLINGTON CON- , . TEST. The erickot match which was commenced on the Basin Reserve on Christmas Da? between Marlborough and o "Wellington eleven ended on Boxing Day, and resulted in heavy defeat for the visitors. Marlborough made 102 runs in their first innings, and Wellington eclipsed this with a first-strike total of 354. ■ As Marlborough's second effort ', realised only 89, victory was Welling-1 ' ton's "by an innings and 163 mne. i Wellington did woll considering that I the City had already .sent a team north, and that most of the best of the 'University men 'were engaged tgainst Otago University. The best of the Wel- ' lington batting was done by .Rogers' and Oate, the Petono pair, who had already done great service in attack. During Marlborough's first innings Rogers took eight wiokets for 13 runs, and Cate, as wicket-keeper, accounted for the other two off the bowling of Hickey and M'lntosh. Then out of Wellington's score of 354 runs, these two players -provided 211, runs: Cate knocked up 72, and Rogers, in a capital innings, reeled off 139. Marlborough, first innings 102 Wellington.—First Innings. S. Hickson, 1.b.w., b. Hylton ....:. 5 Bowles, c Bay, b. Revell : 32 Phillips, b. Hylton 6 Harris, c. Neal, b. R«vell 12 M'lntosh,, b. Revell 7 JJaughton, b. Allcott 14 Cate, 1.b.w., b. Hylton 72 Rcgera, b. Mogridge '. 139 Hickey, b Lucas 14 Birch, c. Hylton, b. Lucas 3 Tucker, not out 11 Extras ,: 39 Total \ ■. >. 854 Bowling Analysis.—Robson took no •wickets, for 59 run's;- Chisholm. none for 18; none for 16; Robinson, none for 24; Mogridge, one for 5; Allcott, one for 57; Hylton, three for 83; Rovell, .three for 88;-Lucas, two for 20. Marlborough.—Second Innings. Chisholm, run out So , Neal, b. Tuoker 9 Robinson, o. Rogers, b. M'lntosh 2 Robson, st. Cate, b. Tncker 0 'Allcott, o. Rogers, b. M'lntosh ... 2' , Bay, b. Tucker 1 Wedde, o. and b. Tucker 0 Hylton, o." eub., b. Tucker 28 Revell, b Tucker .: '. 0 Mo'gridge, not out j 0 Lucas, ,o. Bowles, b. Tuoker 0 Extras' 12 , Total '. 89 Bowling Analysis.—Tucker took seven Crickets for 29 runs'; M'lntosh, two for 'i? 8; Hickson, none for 20.